The Assistant Dean of Students for Student Engagement and Wellness (ADOS SEW) is a twelve-month full-time staff member of the Division of Student Affairs and reports directly to the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Student (AVP/DOS). The ADOS SEW is a key member of the Vice President of Student Affairs and Athletics leadership team and is a highly visible student-centered leader in Student Affairs.  

This Assistant Dean provides vision and leadership to create and foster a healthy, safe, and inclusive robust campus life for a diverse student population. As a divisional leader, the ADOS SEW is tasked with providing leadership and oversight for the work areas of Student Engagement and Belonging, Outdoor Program, and Integrated Wellness. The Assistant Dean serves as the university ADA Coordinator and has special planning duties for Convocation and Commencement.

The dynamic student development work delivered by these units is intentionally designed to remove barriers of participation, educate students on unconscious bias, and invite students to co-create an inclusive campus environment. The Assistant Dean is a lead champion for centering diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging in student affairs programming and services. Directors reporting to the Assistant Dean of Student Engagement and Wellness are experienced and respected by their campus colleagues. They are deeply committed to removing barriers to student success for all identities. This is a key leadership role for cross-unit collaboration and coordination that removes barriers to people of differing abilities.

Student Affairs at Westminster is committed to creating an environment that encourages students’ exploration of self while pursuing community and working toward academic success. Westminster is a private comprehensive liberal arts institution with a deep commitment to preparing students to lead lives of learning, accomplishment, and service and to help them develop skills and attributes vital for success in a diverse and interdependent world. Westminster centralizes engaged learning that emphasizes theory and practice academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programs. A culture of imagination and innovation with a committed practice of inclusiveness and respect for differences.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Management and Administration

Directly supervise the Director of Student Engagement and Belonging (SEB) who leads a team of four professional staff who manage registered student organizations, Associated Students of Westminster (ASW) (student government), ASW Programming Board, ASW Allocations, student center tabling, and department programs. SEB also coordinates New Student Orientation for undergraduates, transfer students, and Parents and Families.

Directly supervise the Director of Outdoor Program who leads highly collaborative team of two professional staff members and an extended team of student employees and student trip leaders. Outdoor Program oversees/manages experiential education programs that develop student leadership and/or technical skills, oversees student-led outdoor trips, pre-orientation student experiences, the campus Bike Collective, Ski and Snowboard Collective, rental gear, climbing wall, robust partnership with the Outdoor Education Leadership department, and permit issuance to the Wasatch Front.

Directly supervise the Director of Integrated Wellness as they deliver comprehensive health and wellness services and support to the student community. Integrated Wellness consists of a Director, an Assistant Director as outlined in this job description, staff Nurse Practitioner(s) and Mental Health Therapist(s), and clinical trainee(s). Integrated Wellness provides on-site medical and mental health care for students, designs and delivers student wellness programming, and provides frontline customer service to various stakeholder groups for Integrated Wellness initiatives.

As ADA Coordinator (Title II) for Westminster, this campus leader is responsible for advocacy and delivery of institution-wide oversight of compliance with American Disability Act (ADA).

Student Disability Services directly serves students and is a strategic campus partner in shaping system access issues and trends while maintaining a clear separation from individual student accommodation decision-making. Similarly, Human Resources is a key campus partner who maintains responsibility for individual employee accommodation decision-making. An immediate priority of the position is to coordinate institutional approach and compliance with federal digital accessibility mandates with a due date of April 26, 2027. Responsibilities include:

• Coordinating a cross-unit task for digital accessibility compliance

• Identify and respond to complaints about barriers to accessibility – physical, technological, academic – through DRC and collaboration with other campus departments
• Coordinate ADA Grievance processes through informal mediation and formal complaint procedures for students and employees
• Provide ADA training and information resources for faculty and staff, sometimes in coordination with Human Resources and Student Disability Services
• Establish and maintain productive partnerships with units across the institution including Student Disability Services, Human Resources, Campus Safety, Information Services, and Marketing and Communications

Promote an Inclusive Westminster through demonstration of the commitments included in the Westminster University Diversity Statement.

Participate in developmental activities to increase understanding and awareness of issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion both individually and as related to field of work, profession, or discipline.

Collaborate with Student Success and Retention Team in coordination of retention and matriculation initiatives related to work areas in portfolio.

Foster and maintain strategic partnerships with Student Disability Services, Human Resources, Information Services, Marketing and Communication, Student Success, Campus Events, Admissions, Athletics, and departments within the Division of Student Affairs.

Produce departmental assessment plans that expand the potential for student success by utilizing a data-informed approach to student programming that positively contributes to retention and graduation rates.

Develop, analyze, and generate departmental reports containing descriptive analytical and evaluative content generated by completing formative and summative assessment.

Additional Duties

• Serve as a Campus Security Authority and Mandatory Reporter
• Student conduct officer when needed
• Data management, facility management, assessment, and reporting
• Assist students and other parties in policy understanding and application
• Provide collaborative leadership and coordination of high-profile institutional events including convocation and commencement

 MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in higher education administration, counseling, business administration, or law from an accredited college or university

• Five years of related experience in an academic setting
• Experience in higher education, particularly in the area(s) of student development, programming, DEIAB informed practice, student wellness
• Experience supervising professional staff
• Demonstrated experience working with college students
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with resolution of all types of student grievances
• Ability to attend occasional after-hour work events and respond to unplanned student emergencies
• Demonstrated experience in administration, budget management, assessment, problem-solving, and crisis or emergency response
• Demonstrated experience in policy interpretation, application, and compliance
• Demonstrated knowledge of federal legislation, guidelines and updates including:

• • Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
  • Title IX (1972) and ongoing updates
  • Campus Sexual Assault Victim’s Bill of Rights (1992)
  • Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act/Campus SAVE Act (2013)
  • Clery Act (1990)
  • Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act (2007)
  • Rehabilitation Act (1973)
  • Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act/FERPA (1974)
  • Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act/HIPPA (1996)
  • Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act/ DFSCA (2018)
  • Federal Anti-hazing legislation: REACH Act (2021)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Demonstrated experience with institutional level programming for signature events, such as Commencement, Convocation, student leadership summits, and campus-wide orientation.
• Experience with facility accessibility and program accessibility

WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

Westminster University is dedicated to social justice, equity, and respect as fundamental components of our mission and core values. Informed by our college-wide learning goals, Westminster acknowledges and engages with the values, experiences, worldviews, and intersectional identities and characteristics of all members of our campus community. Furthermore, we strive for inclusive excellence by consistently interweaving diversity and inclusion into our curricula and co-curricular activities, programs, policies, practices, and external engagement. It is our goal to cultivate a respectful, equitable, and healthy campus community.

As part of this statement, we define diversity as individual differences, life experiences, group/social differences (e.g., race/ethnicity, class, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, and disability), historically underrepresented groups, and groups with cultural, political, religious/spiritual, or other affiliations (Adapted from the AAC&U).

The Diversity Statement is further supported through our Commitment to an Inclusive Westminster, the President’s Statement on Safe Haven, Westminster’s non-discrimination statement, and our equal opportunity, ADA, and Title IX policies.